Wordfence Security – Firewall & Malware Scan - Version 7.1.2

Version Description

• Improvement: Added support for filtering the blocks list.
• Improvement: Added a flow for generating the WAF autoprepend file and retrieving the path for manual installations.
• Improvement: Added a variety of new data values to the Diagnostics page to aid in debugging issues.
• Improvement: SVG files now have the JavaScript-based malware signatures run against them.
• Improvement: More descriptive text for the scan issue email when there's an unknown WordPress core version.
• Improvement: Added a dedicated error display that will show when a scan is detected as failed.
• Improvement: readme.html and wp-config-sample.php are no longer scanned for changes due to differences between languages (malware signatures still run).
• Improvement: When the license status changes, it now triggers a fresh pull of the WAF rules.
• Improvement: Added dedicated messaging for leftover WordPress core files that were not fully removed during upgrade.
• Improvement: Improved labeling in Live Traffic for hits blocked by the real-time IP blacklist.
• Improvement: Added forced wrapping to the file paths in the activity report email to avoid scroll bar overlap making them unreadable.
• Improvement: Updated the bundled GeoIP database.
• Improvement: Updated the bundled browscap database.
• Improvement: All emailed alerts now include a link to the generating site.
• Change: Minor text change to unify some terminology.
• Fix: Removed a remaining reference to the CDN version of Font Awesome.
• Fix: Removed an old reference to the pre-Wordfence 7.1 lockouts table.
• Fix: Scan results for malware detections in posts are no longer clickable.
• Fix: We now verify that there's a valid email address defined before attempting to send an alert and filter out any invalid ones.
• Fix: Added a workaround for GoDaddy/Limit Login Attempts suppressing the 2FA prompting.